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Bratislava is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city proper is about 479,000, the wider Bratislava Region exceeds 732,000 inhabitants.
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Guy Langevin and guests
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Guy Langevin (1954, Lac-Mégantic) is a Quebecois artist. He studied visual arts at Université Laval and specializes in printmaking, particularly lithography and mezzotint. As a long-time member of Atelier Circulaire in…
RENEWAL OF TRADITION 20/25
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
China and her art have fascinated other parts of the world for ages. In its contemporary manifestation, starting with what is now known as the 85 New Wave, the Chinese art scene exploded into global awareness after…
I Came Back, Though We Did Not Miss Each Other
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
I Came Back, Though We Did Not Miss Each Other Lubomír Typlt is one of the most distinguished representatives of the middle generation of contemporary Czech fi gurative painting. Since the late 1990s, he has introduced…
Jiří Kolář and Ladislav Novák: Homage to Flies Spiders Fish Mice and Dogs
Slovak National Gallery
One of the poems from Jiří Kolář's 1969 collection Návod k upotřebení lends its title to this joint exhibition of two friends, two Czech visual artists and poets in one – Jiří Kolář and Ladislav Novák.
Galanda and The Galandites
Slovak National Gallery
"This exhibition has no banner. Anyone looking for a group with a single, complete artistic programme would be disappointed. Rather, it is inconsistency, all too varied, that accompanies it. But after a period of…
Like Real
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Drawings of animals, plants, stones, bones elaborated (literally) to micrometers, powerful in their detail... Do you remember how fascinating they were to you when you browsed through encyclopedias as a child? You…
The Centre is Elsewhere II
Bratislava City Gallery
The exhibition The Centre is Elsewhere II explores trauma as a consequence of the functioning of society. The artists Klára Kusá and Andrea Uváčiková critically challenge the societal notion that a deteriorating mental…
The Art of Interaction
Bratislava City Gallery
Can art set our entire body and mind in motion? The Art of Interaction exhibition focuses on ways of engaging audiences in the process of perceiving, interpreting, and creating works of art from the decades since the…
THE MAGIC OF INK
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Renowned poet, lyricist and painter Fan Xueyi has been writing poetry since childhood. In 2002, she published her first poetry collection Childhood River. In 2008, after several years of curating art exhibitions and…
THE MAGIC OF INK
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Ink painting is a traditional Chinese art form. Water and ink are mixed on an inkstone to create different shades of black, then applied with a brush to hand-made bast paper. The amount of water, the brush and the…
ADAM SZENTPÉTERY: NETWORK
Slovak National Gallery
The exhibition Network, the first solo exhibition by the Slovak painter Adam Szentpétery to be staged at the Slovak National Gallery, offers a comprehensive overview of his more than forty-year career. The artist has…
Free fall
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
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Tail Light (Retrospective)
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
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Bang?! Bang! 2
Slovak National Gallery
This is the second edition of an exhibition that charts variability of the predominantly Slovak art scene from the 1960s to the present. It builds on the Bang! Bang?! exhibition, broadening it and, in certain areas,…
Illustrations
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
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Beneath the Surface
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Ivan Ouhel’s work has a special place in the context of Czech art of the last decades. Although he was a member of the free group 12/15 Pozdě, ale přece and Umělecká beseda, his painting style always retained a distinct…
Anetta Mona Chiça, Lucia Tkáčová: Totems
Bratislava City Gallery
The installation Totems comprises a series of five unique sculptures made of burnt books on concrete bases. Individual book titles are not recognisable, however, as in the process of burning they merged into a complete…
Maria Bartuszová – Being Nature
Bratislava City Gallery
“I want to work with clean principles. I believe that shapes, in and of themselves, have a powerful psychological impact – for example: angular, sharp, inorganic shapes convey a sense of coldness; rounded, organic…
Satori in Cífer II
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Svetozár Ilavský has been designated the most distinguished representative of his generation since he began to pursue his artistic path. Spontaneous painting expression, combination of various approaches and techniques,…
Graphics Cabinets
Bratislava City Gallery
The Graphics Cabinets form the interior decoration in two rooms on the first floor of Mirbach Palace, having probably been commissioned by one of the original owners of the building. They are exceptional not only for…
English Tapestries
Bratislava City Gallery
The Primate's Palace, one of the most beautiful classicist buildings in Bratislava, was built in 1778 by Archbishop Cardinal Jozef Batthyány in accordance with the project of architect Melchior Hefele. The palace and…
BIATEC. Celtic Mint
Bratislava City Gallery
New permanent exhibition BIATEC. Celtic Mint, prepared by the Municipal Monument Preservation Institute Bratislava (MÚOP) in cooperation with Bratislava City Gallery (GMB), presents cultural heritage through visual…
Gothic Panel Painting and Plastic Art
Bratislava City Gallery
The exhibition was originally designed by curator Želmíra Grajciarová. It opened in 1998 on the first floor of Pálffy Palace following complete reconstruction of the building and its subsequent opening to the public…